August 28, 2018 World’s ‘most beautiful’ electric car to hit the road in 2020 Announcement is nothing but good news to battery metals miners, which have seen demand for their mined commodities soar in the past year.
August 27, 2018 POSCO to buy lithium mining rights in Argentina from Galaxy The $280-million deal gives POSCO a package of mining tenements for 17,500 hectares of land in the northern area of the Salar del Hombre Muerto salt flat in Argentina.
August 24, 2018 Reduced cobalt electric car batteries delayed amid price fall "Poorer life cycle, reduced safety and misrepresented relative cost savings are all major concerns for electric vehicle producers."
August 24, 2018 Chile’s lithium giant SQM sees prices falling further this year But the world's second largest producer said they will remain higher than the average reached last year.
August 23, 2018 Chile says to clamp down on water rights in lithium-rich Salar de Atacama Chile is preparing major new restrictions on the extraction of water from the lithium-rich Salar de Atacama salt flats, home to top lithium miners Albemarle and SQM.
August 22, 2018 Kemetco progress continues to meet expectations Kemetco recovered 97.5% cobalt, 97.61% manganese, 97.23% nickel, and 68.75% lithium with recovery expected to increase.
August 21, 2018 Nemaska lithium finalizes a 5 year supply agreement with Northvolt Nemaska Lithium has entered into a 5 year supply agreement in which it supplies battery grade lithium hydroxide to Northvolt.
August 20, 2018 Canadian company one step closer to building petro-lithium extraction unit International Battery Metals is going to work with Impact Technology Development on the design and construction of its first proprietary mobile lithium extraction unit.
August 20, 2018 China’s lithium price decline is not the full picture to an industry surging The downturn in Chinese lithium prices has also led to many false conclusions about what is really happening to the lithium price.
August 20, 2018 Major lithium-ion battery manufacturer planning output that may rival entire 2015 LIB market: analysts Eclipse.
Chile regulator approves Codelco-SQM lithium deal hours after announcing audit The resolution comes hours after the top regulator announced it would launch an "unprecedented audit". December 19, 2025 | 03:13 pm
